Dr. L. Grčevska, Department of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, Vodnjanska 17, YU-91000 Skopje (Yugoslavia) Dear Sir, Various heredofamilial diseases involve the kidney, but there are also renal diseases in which familial aggregation can occur, such as IgA glomerulopathy, lupus nephritis, membranous nephropathy and vesicoureteral reflux [1-4]. We want to present 3 brothers who developed signs of gl...

Although Giemsa staining has been routinely used for the detection of trophozoites and intracystic bodies in smears of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) from patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, it does not normally stain the cyst wall. For detection of the cysts other stains such as toluidine Blue 'O' and methenamine silver must be used as well. Sulphation of smears before staining w...

In this study, a UV curable hybrid material from palm oil was prepared with glycerol and glycidyl methacrylate (GMA). However, the resin brittle flammable. Thus, tri-n-butyl phosphate (TnBP) polypropylene glycol 400 (PPG) were added in formulation as flame retardant plasticizer respectively. From results, gel content of cured films more than 95%. The hardness, adhesion strength, impact, water a...

introduction: currently, developing new antibacterial drugs as alternative antibiotics is a very active area of research, due to widspreading widespread prevalence of resistant strains of microorganisms. this work intends to investigate of antibacterial properties and influence on immune blood cells of the silver-based compound hexamethylenetetramine (methenamine) silver nitrate with general fo...

Aims. We investigate the purely thermal formation of hexamethylenetetramine (HMT, C6H12N4) in interstellar ice analogs from nonphotolysed ice and compare our results with those for the formation from photolysed ice. Methods. We use Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy to follow residue formation from VUV irradiation of H2CO:NH3 ice mixture in different concentration ratios. We also report th...

Heavy-atom clusters (HA clusters) containing a large number of specifically arranged electron-dense scatterers are especially useful for experimental phase determination of large complex structures, weakly diffracting crystals or structures with large unit cells. Often, the determination of the exact orientation of the HA cluster and hence of the individual heavy-atom positions proves to be the...

Generation of the primate cortex is characterized by the diversity of cortical precursors and the complexity of their lineage relationships. Recent studies have reported miscellaneous precursor types based on observer classification of cell biology features including morphology, stemness, and proliferative behavior. Here we use an unsupervised machine learning method for Hidden Markov Trees (HM...